Fitchburg

September home sales figures in Massachusetts largely mirrored the trends of increasing prices and limited inventory seen...

Twenty-five local nonprofits have split $440,000 in funding from the Southbridge-based United Way of South Central Massachusetts aimed at supporting services addressing needs throughout the region, including food insecurity, homelessness, and mental health. 

Rollstone Bank & Trust in Fitchburg will merge with River Run Bancorp, a Newburyport-based firm created as a multi-bank mutual holding company.

Central Massachusetts professionals are being hired and promoted at organizations including bankHometown, Vision Advertising, and Webster Five.

Other than prices creeping upwards, the Central Massachusetts single-family market saw little change since August last year.

Ohio-based Big Lots has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Pelmeds, a Waltham-based closed-door pharmacy specializing in medication management and delivery with a location in Fitchburg, has acquired the Brockton-based pharmacy Apothecare.  

Thirteen years after a fire destroyed the Johnsonia Building in Fitchburg, the City’s redevelopment authority has put out a request for proposals for the vacant lot.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has fined three individuals and businesses with ties to Central Massachusetts, with the fines totaling $168,413. 

July brought another month of high home prices to Central Massachusetts.